Julian Bond’s lectures from his prolific teaching career are full of firsthand lessons from his direct involvement in the civil rights movement.
Ida B. Wells was righteously indignant and wise beyond her era, and Michelle Duster translates her drive to today’s racial discourse with insight and grace.
Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin never met, but between 1939 and 1945 they had a strong relationship, and Laurence Rees brings this six-year period vividly alive.
As Annalee Newitz shows in Four Lost Cities, an ancient city’s fate was determined by complex interactions of politics, the environment and human choices.
This comprehensive meditation on Black history in the United States features 90 noteworthy Black authors and poets ruminating on the last 400 years.
In Dress Codes, Richard Thompson Ford has created a thorough and well-thought-out history of fashion from a legal and societal perspective.
Set during an era when being Black and accused of a crime was almost a guaranteed death sentence, A Shot in the Moonlight reads like a riveting thriller.
The Eagles of Heart Mountain is a timely examination of how the policy of Japanese incarceration impacted the lives of young people and their families.
The Crooked Path to Abolition is richly rewarding and helps us see the full context of political decisions that put slavery on a course of ultimate extinction.
In 1939, Hans Lichtenstein’s mother put him on a train from Berlin to England. In 2015, he and his son Jonathan returned to Berlin in search of peace.
In her absorbing biography of elusive author Louise Fitzhugh, Leslie Brody succeeds admirably in reconstructing Fitzhugh’s complicated, often troubled life.
In his enlightening Ruin and Renewal, Paul Betts shows how efforts to “civilize” the devastated postwar regions of Europe influenced much of our world today.
Homeira Qaderi’s searing memoir Dancing in the Mosque tells the story of one woman who could not conform to the strictures of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.
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